Angry and anguished ... Occasionally, McNally loads the dice. As he became famous, Muir acquired famous friends, like the American Museum of Natural History’s Henry Fairfield Osborn, who promulgated quasi-scientific white-supremacist views. Did Muir support these views? "Muir never commented one way or another," McNally concedes. "Likely he more or less agreed with them." It’s not a charge that would stand up in court ... Still, Cast Out of Eden is a convincing, corrective portrait of a revered but flawed man, and of a movement’s original sins.
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